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The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol, England. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876. Bristol is the most popular multifaculty university in the UK, with over 14 applicants vying for each place, and average A-level attainment of successful entrants of just under 4 grade As. For some of the most popular courses, such as Economics and Law, the applicant to place ratio is often as high as 40:1. The University has an annual turnover of £347m and is the largest independent employer in Bristol. The University is a member of the Russell Group, The European-wide Coimbra Group and the Worldwide Universities Network, of which the University's Vice-Chancellor Prof Eric Thomas was Chair (2005-2007). The University of Bristol has approximately 18,000 students. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Bristol)
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A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways |
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop |
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts |
Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Biz/Ed Bulletin |
Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics |
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know? |
Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. |
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Book Review: Net Effects |
Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values. |
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Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography |
Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson. |
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Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse |
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing |
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education |
Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here? |
Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections |
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving |
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Don't You Know Who I Am? |
John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University |
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions. |
July 2012, issue69, event report |
ELVIRA |
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes |
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. |
May 1997, issue9, event report |
Establishing a Digital Library Centre |
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography |
Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Sociology |
In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology |
Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 |
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case |
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Intute Integration |
Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Intute Reflections at the End of an Era |
Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Intute: The New Best of the Web |
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
JISC ASSIST |
Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit |
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph |
A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways |
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Metadata: Image Retrieval |
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg |
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
MIDRIB |
Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine |
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
